The Norwegian Nobel Committee has honoured the prominent Venezuelan Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Prize for 2025 at a time when U.S.-Venezuela relations have hit a new low.

The honour to Ms. Machado, one of the strongest critics of controversial President Nicolas Maduro, comes at a time when the Donald Trump administration has upped the ante against Venezuela. It has ordered a major build-up of U.S. naval forces in the southern Caribbean Sea, outside Venezuela’s waters, leading to speculation that the ties are headed towards a military confrontation. Mr. Trump has, without basis, declared that Mr. Maduro’s government is a “narco-terror cartel” and Mr. Maduro a “terrorist-cartel leader”, with the naval mission targeting boats ostensibly operated by the cartel.

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